Re: Open-source visualization-based interface to search, browse, and data-mine image collections

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:49:04 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Mark Derthick wrote:

> My field is Information Visualization, and I've applied that
> paradigm to
> reconceptualize the tasks an OPAC should support, and the look and
> feel
> to support them. Bungee View:
>
>   http://cityscape.inf.cs.cmu.edu/bungee/
>
> is playful, in the sense that AquaBrowser's word cloud is playful, but
> it displays hundreds of times more related terms; is more precise
> about
> the relationship between each term and the current query; and supports
> deeper exploration of those relationships -- all the way up to
> statistical testing and comparing p-values if you want...


The above link is very interesting since it demonstrates and
illustrates alternative ways to search and browse large lists
(collections) of information. Kudos.

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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame
Received on Wed Aug 22 2007 - 11:30:33 EDT